<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853]]></link><description><![CDATA[Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. So, melancholy is morbid only when it occupies too much place in life; but it is equally morbid for it to be wholly excluded from life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26853</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4062]]></link><description><![CDATA[Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/50977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10776]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10776</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/24716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601]]></link><description><![CDATA[We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679]]></link><description><![CDATA[Black life is ambiguous, and a kaleidoscope of meanings, rich, multi-sided . . . we have frozen our vision in figures that caricature, at best the complexity of our lives and leave the real artistic chore of interpretation unfinished.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/23679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309]]></link><description><![CDATA[Institutions can never conserve without betraying the movements from which they proceed. The institution is static, whereas its parent movement has been dynamic; it confines men within its limits, while the movement had liberated them from the bondage of institutions; it looks to the past, [although] the movement had pointed forward. Though in content the institution resembles the dynamic epoch whence it proceeded, in spirit it is like the [state] before the revolution. So the Christian church, after the early period, often seemed more closely related in attitude to the Jewish synagogue and the Roman state than to the age of Christ and his apostles; its creed was often more like a system of philosophy than like the living gospel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6309</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Talkers are no good doers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51509]]></link><description><![CDATA[Talkers are no good doers.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A trade is better then service. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49080]]></link><description><![CDATA[A trade is better then service.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13288]]></link><description><![CDATA[ECCENTRICITY, n. A method of distinction so cheap that fools employ it to accentuate their incapacity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52154]]></link><description><![CDATA[We should listen first and foremost to our own experience...We should stop looking for saviors... Society has not existed for thousands of years because it had a succession of saviors. It's existed because it has institutions and processes through which people can realize their own goals.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52154</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made:  Men scent our fragrance on the air, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60721]]></link><description><![CDATA[The violets whisper from the shade Which their own leaves have made:  Men scent our fragrance on the air,   Yet take no heed    Of humble lessons we would read.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/60721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56943]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14511]]></link><description><![CDATA[Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14511</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1317</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311]]></link><description><![CDATA[Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56311</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495]]></link><description><![CDATA[Rules of society are nothing; ones conscience is the umpire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14495</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333]]></link><description><![CDATA[Amiable weakness of human nature.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61333</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr! -King Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56047</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31453]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be absolutely a mistake to think that you can just eat what you want and you're going to be OK.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830]]></link><description><![CDATA[If a scientist were to cut his ear off, no one would take it as evidence of a heightened sensibility.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435]]></link><description><![CDATA[The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4435</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3552]]></link><description><![CDATA[All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the last analysis sound judgment will prevail.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53398</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The shameful apostasy of Israel is unparalleled among the heathen nations of the world, God charges (Jer. 2:9-13). Search through ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8227]]></link><description><![CDATA[The shameful apostasy of Israel is unparalleled among the heathen nations of the world, God charges (Jer. 2:9-13). Search through every pagan nation, inquire in every idol temple, investigate the religious life of the idolaters of the world, and there will be found a fidelity to these false gods that will put Israel's unfaithfulness to her God to shame. Israel's conduct was unheard of even among the heathen. The idolatrous nations remained true to their gods, in spite of the fact that they did not actually exist and could not help them in any way. God, as it were, marvels at Israel's unbelief.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/8227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times have passed away. There is a time to fight, and that time has now come.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52371</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whethera man is wise by his ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21397]]></link><description><![CDATA[You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whethera man is wise by his questions.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21397</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62040]]></link><description><![CDATA[Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62040</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662]]></link><description><![CDATA[Balance is beautiful.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915]]></link><description><![CDATA[People demand freedom only when they have no power.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side; one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206]]></link><description><![CDATA[He without fear is king of the world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the end we are all separate: our stories, no matter how similar, come to a fork and diverge. We are drawn to each other because of our similarities, but it is our differences we must learn to respect.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/13793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[-Cel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630]]></link><description><![CDATA[-Cel.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55630</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071]]></link><description><![CDATA[How like a queen comes forth the lonely Moon From the slow opening curtains of the clouds  Walking in beauty to her midnight throne!]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43071</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would be a great buying opportunity if the tower stocks got significantly hurt by news of a wireless merger,]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39046</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51829]]></link><description><![CDATA[Their own death accompanies the wound they inflict.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694]]></link><description><![CDATA[Money is the seed of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601]]></link><description><![CDATA[Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44413]]></link><description><![CDATA[A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both as his honest interest leads him.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014]]></link><description><![CDATA[When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. •John Muir   Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. •William Cowper   No rest is worth anything except the rest that is earned. •Jean Paul   Sundays, quiet islands on the tossing seas of life. •S. W. Duffield  Rest is the sweet sauce of labor. •Plutarch   I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy! •Louise A. Bogan   A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. •Walter Winchell   One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him. •Chinese Proverb   How beautiful is it to do nothing, and then rest afterward. •Proverb   The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest till it has gained a hearing.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/54014</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7157]]></link><description><![CDATA[Few things are more striking than the change which has taken place during my own lifetime in the attitude of the intelligentsia towards the spokesmen of Christian opinion. When I was a child, bishops expressed doubts about the Resurrection, and were called courageous. When I was a girl, G. K. Chesterton professed belief in the Resurrection, and was called whimsical. When I was at college, thoughtful people expressed belief in the Resurrection "in a spiritual sense", and were called advanced; (any other kind of belief was called obsolete, and its professors were held to be simpleminded). When I was middle-aged, a number of lay persons, including some poets and writers of popular fiction, put forward rational arguments for the Resurrection, and were called courageous. Today, any lay apologist for Christianity... whose works are sold and read, is liable to be abused in no uncertain terms as a mountebank, a reactionary, a tool of the Inquisition, a spiritual snob, an intellectual bully, an escapist, an obstructionist, a psychopathic introvert, an insensitive extrovert, and an enemy of society. The charges are not always mutually compatible, but the common animus behind them is unmistakable, and its name is fear. Writers who attack these domineering Christians are called courageous.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/7157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916]]></link><description><![CDATA[Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760]]></link><description><![CDATA[For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home, Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;  A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play   Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18760</guid></item></channel></rss>